How much is there to say about laptop bags, right. I mean, who gives them a second thought. They’re just the cheap bags you get when your company gives you a laptop, or the cheap ones you order along with your computer from Dell or wherever. Now maybe I have some sort of weird obsessive affliction, but I must have owned 10-15 laptop bags in my life, maybe more. I don’t think I’m that fussy, but I’ve just always struggled for find one that works for me. I’ve never found the perfect laptop bag, but I’ve found some that I thought have come close. But then, invariably, the world keeps turning, technology moves on and I get a smaller laptop, or one with a bigger screen or one that needs space for an external CD drive (because why have one if you don’t use it) and what I thought was perfect bag just isn’t anymore. Hence the growing pile of laptop bags, laptop sleeves and laptop backpacks that now clutter my home and drive my wife mad.
Okay, so before we even get into an overview of the many, many kinds of computer cases that are out there, it behoves me to hold forth on the purpose of a these cases. Now that may also seem a pretty dumb thing to say, but just think about it for a second. Do you want something that will provide protection? If so, is it meant to just give light padding to stop your precious laptop from getting scuffed and marked in another bag? Is it meant to provide serious shock resistance so that your bag can be dropped from a reasonable height, say a desk, while still protecting its precious cargo? Is it meant to keep your laptop dry, or dust free, and under what circumstances? Are you just worried about a little rains shower on your way to work, a drenching while river rafting down the Zambezi or protection from theft?
And do you want to wear it, carry it, sling it over a shoulder, hide it in another back? Am I boring you yet? Suffice to say, the reason there are no perfect laptop bags is that you will never find one to fit all of the ever changing circumstances of your busy and exciting life.
So if we give up on perfection, do we just have to resign ourselves to a search for the good enough laptop bag, the jack of all trades that will fit most circumstances? Or, as I have, do you end up owning a whole attic full of the damnable things?
To illustrate the point, why don’t you take a look at the category “laptop bags and cases” in Amazon.com. The top-sellers on the day I looked were (in order)
- Case Logic Compact Portable Hard Drive Case (Black) by Case Logic
- SwissGear SA1908 ScanSmart Backpack in Black by Swiss Gear
- Case Logic LNEO-10 Ultraportable Neoprene Notebook Sleeve (Black) by Case Logic
- Case Logic VHS-101 Portable Hard Drive Case (Black) by Case Logic
- Case Logic VNC-17 17-inch Value Slimline Laptop Case (Black) by Case Logic
Just take a look at that list again. So we have a hard-drive case. Okay, I get that. Sometimes I want to carry my hard drive around without my computer. Then comes a backpack designed to go through airport security, an ultraportable, very thin little sleeve, another hard drive case and a run of the mill laptop case designed to carry a baby with a 17 inch screen. The point I’m trying to make is that there is no pattern here. People aren’t all going for the same kind of bag, because everyone has their own special preferences. This website is about trying to help you sift through all the thousands of laptop bags out there to find the one that work best for you. Welcome and read on.
No comments yet.